The 'Football Club Ajax', later changed into 'Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax', is founded on 18 March 1900 bởi Han Dade, Carel Reeser and Floris Stempel. They played on various field and were quite successfull. The 30's of the 20th century were the first 'Golden Age'. Ajax had players such as Piet van Reenen and Wim Andriesen, won a lot of prizes and got a whole new stadium, De Meer.
During the WW2, Ajax had a downfall. Many players and other people from the club were send to concentration camps. After the war, football/soccer was getting bigger and bigger, with Real Madrid, Hungaria, di Stefano...
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